Phyllis Brusiloff was the principal investigator of a national institute of mental health grant replicating the program in four New York City day care centers. She also consulted to the Early Childhood Division of North Carolina and lectures across the country for programs in psychology psychiatry and early childhood education. Mary Jane Witenberg was the epitome of a sensitive supportive nursery school teacher who enhanced the lives of all the children in her classrooms. Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum who wrote the introduction is currently Professor of Clinical Psychiatry emeritus and Training Director emeritus in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Emerging Child is still an integral part of her curriculum. . Language: English